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Hates The Force Awakens?


A friend of mine told me he did, and was purposely breaking all of Disney's rules because he knows they can't sack him because of his important role in the films, but Hamill actually doesn't like the direction the franchise is taken.

Anyone got any evidence to back this claim up for me? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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I never thought he hated The Force Awakens. I figured George Lucas hated The Force Awakens and Harrison Ford hated it.

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I never got the impression he hates the movie. He always loved SW now Harrison Ford I would believe hating it. This is the first I heard about this. A story like that would be on hundreds of entertainment sites.

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And so he loved the prequels?

Anyone who hates the Force Awakens needs to realize... we just needed something basic, again, like a bunch of rebels running away from the evil Empire... That's it... No senate debates, miner's unions, dumb cartoons and 1950's waitresses on rollerskates...

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Then reboot it or make a spin off or start something new. Don't rehash and call it a sequel. Also if you are going to have a underdog story with rebels running away from an evil empire, you might want to make the heroes underdogs and not dominate the evil Empire. At that point it is not a evil Empire, more like joke.

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I appreciate your dedication. I think that user is an archieve. Usually you can tell if you click on the name and it goes nowhere. I fell for it a few times. Thought I found some users I knew.

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Honestly I am just trying to keep the discussion board fresh. the traffic here is still pretty low so I am dedicated to trying to give at least the appearance of popularity thus attracting new commentators. That and I am also bored right now. lol

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If he does I can't blame it was not exactly a good film

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Hamill is far to much of a diplomat and good sport to bad mouth TFA and I don't believe he has ever said that in the media at all.

He was concerned though initially when Jar jar Abrams was trying to convince him to do the cameo at end of movie whether the scene would play out alright or come across as "cheesy" or not. Abrams convinced him though and Mark did the scene.

Personally I think Mark Hamill was correct in his concerns and the scene was indeed "Cheesy" like a day time serial with long stares at each other when Rey meet's Luke with no dialog. They just had to stick him in there anyway probably for marketing and merchandise purposes. Typical Jar Jar Abrams

TFA would have been better with Rey & Chewie going into lightspeed to find him and END CREDITS rolling leaving Luke's entrance better for the start of EP VIII (8).



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I agree, Hamill is too gracious and too much of a professional to bad mouth TFA but I do think he's not that impressed with it based on this (around 48:00-50:00 I think):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhpgF9AdkHs



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TFA would have been better with Rey & Chewie going into lightspeed to find him and END CREDITS rolling leaving Luke's entrance better for the start of EP VIII (8). That's how it should've ended.

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Dunno why but I loved the force awakaned, maybe it just the simplicity of it. It was a throw-back to the classic starwars of the past. A new hope, feels. Right in the nostalgic feels. No complaints with the direction SW is going!

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